Stellar spin explains fading black hole light flares
A hydrodynamical simulation of a star being ripped apart by the tidal forces of a supermassive black hole.…
NASA’s Swift Sees ‘Wandering’ Mega Black Hole Shredding Star
NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory captured an “orphan” black hole lighting up as it devoured a star on…
Hillsborough meteorite: Space rock reveals alien brine chemistry and seeds of life
Fragment of the Hillsborough meteorite, broken on impact, with fusion crust from passing at high speed through the…
NASA’s Webb Discovers Hidden Planet in Famous Star System
Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a giant planet outside our solar system, called an…
NASA’s Webb Reveals Stars Sparking to Life in Cosmic Celebration
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured the infrared light of numerous features that previously were impossible to…
NASA’s Webb Studies How Planet Survived Death of its Star
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is giving us new insight into the far-future of solar systems like our…
NASA’s Webb Pinpoints Millions of Stars Within Cigar Galaxy
Located 12 million light-years away and undergoing rapid star formation, edge-on spiral galaxy Messier 82 (M82) is a…
NASA’s Webb Finds Clues to Ancient, Distant Origin of Comet 3I/ATLAS
As interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS began moving away from the Sun in December 2025, astronomers took the opportunity to…
AI uncovers nearly 1 000 hidden earthquakes beneath East Antarctica
The earthquakes were not found during a new Antarctic field campaign. Instead, researchers reanalyzed seismic data recorded by…
NASA’s Lucy Reveals Wobbling, Peanut-Shaped Asteroid
Even small asteroids lead complex lives. During its flyby of the asteroid Donaldjohanson last year, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft…
NASA’s Webb Catches Exoplanet Getting Roasted
One well-done gas giant, coming right up! That’s the latest from researchers analyzing NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s…
NASA Webb, Hubble Reveal History of Relic of Milky Way’s Formation
Researchers using two of humanity’s most powerful observatories — NASA’s James Webb and Hubble Space Telescopes — have…